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Live audio playback from digital source?
JimH:
Isn't makeMKV available for Mac?
blgentry:
--- Quote from: JimH on May 20, 2023, 11:24:49 pm ---Isn't makeMKV available for Mac?
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Yes. I've used it many times. MakeMKV decrypts and turns discs into MKV files. These MKVs are not the same thing as as disc structure.
Disc structures contain multiple video titles and menus. MC for Mac will not read any DVD or BD structure whether it is encrypted or decrypted. MC for Windows reads DVD and BD structures. It also decrypts on the fly if you have a BD/DVD decryption tool installed.
Brian.
mstan:
--- Quote from: JimH on May 20, 2023, 09:41:59 am ---Sorry, Brian, but that's definitely not the case. In the last couple of versions we've added Television, JRVR, etc.
Bob and I have worked with Unix and its derivatives (which both Linux and MacOS are) since about 1986.
Most everything we do on Windows eventually comes to Mac and Linux.
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Glad to hear this, Jim. So what about the record input/live monitor feature for Mac? Without that feature half of what I do in MC is cutoff on the Mac side. There are any number of DAWs on Mac that provide real time monitoring of the input. How hard technically is it to implement that in MC?
mstan:
--- Quote from: blgentry on May 20, 2023, 09:29:20 am ---I disagree with you both, but that's ok. We can each do our own thing and still be friendly.
On the technical front: JRiver as a company has shown very little interest in porting Windows specific features to MC on other platforms. Things like decoding of DVD and BD, the WDM driver, and visualizations all use libraries or components that are only on Windows. Duplicating them for Mac or Linux is apparently a lot of work without enough return to justify the effort and expense. So, in my opinion ONLY, we will never see these features in MC for Mac or Linux or any other platform; only on Windows.
As for MacOS having problems, I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. The platform itself is rock solid. I often find that former Windows customers have a hard time switching to Mac because they are expecting this non-Windows platform to behave like Windows. It obviously does not. But it can be hard to get used to thinking of things in a different way.
Or perhaps you really want to use some programs that work really well on Windows, but not so great on Mac. I can tell you from experience that the Mac can be an extreme stable easy to use platform. But not if you are trying to force it to act like Windows.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
Brian.
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I am not a newbie on either Mac or Windows. I have been using Macs in earnest since 2008 and even earlier having owned an Apple IIe. And, of course, who hasn't used Windows. There is no overall "best" between them. The Mac is better at some things (e.g., hardware/software/services integration and lately power efficient computing a la arm silicon) and Windows at others. Actually, Mac OS in its latest form (Ventura) is not that stable and demonstrates a deteriorating trend in Mac OS quality.
The specific problems I have experienced recently on Mac OS (both Ventura and Mohave) with regards to audio performance have been frequent disconnections of my Lynx Hilo ADDA usb drivers either at the completion of a playback sequence on MC or wake from sleep requiring a power cycling of the Hilo to reload the drivers. This does not happen on Windows. So that is a Mac OS issue not a MC one. As I said earlier my issue with MC for Mac is mainly lack of an essential feature for me.
I don't know technically what it would take for JRiver to implement the record in/live monitor feature found in every DAW. But, right now, without it is like using a DAW that can only playback and not record. Who would use such a thing? Not me. So it is back to Windows for MC for me.
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